Bouquet of Cloud Services
The Cloud services, listed under this section, have been categorized into “Basic Cloud Services” and “Advanced Cloud Services”. The Cloud services listed under the “Basic Cloud Services” are mandatory for all CSPs to offer to the Government Organizations under at least one of the empaneled Cloud Deployment Models. However, the Cloud services listed under the “Advanced Cloud Services” category are optional for the CSPs to offer. (Click here for Bouquet of Cloud Services)

The objective of empanelment of Cloud Audit Organization is to empanel third party audit organizations/ auditors who are competent to assess Cloud Service Provider for compliance as per defined requirements and criteria. (Click here for details)

MeitY has prepared following documents to help the Government Departments and PSUs in procuring Cloud services from the empaneled Cloud Service Providers. . The documents are procurement guidelines, Service Level Agreements and contractual terms. These documents are meant to provide an indicative direction and they can be suitably modified/ aligned as per individual Department’s requirements.

MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has invited the bid documents from the prospective Cloud Service Providers with reference to the RFP for “Provisional Empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service providers (CSPs)” dated 30th December 2015

In order to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India embarked upon an ambitious initiative – “GI Cloud” which has been coined as ‘Meghraj’. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government.

The architectural vision of GI Cloud as mentioned above consists of a set of discrete cloud computing environments spread across multiple locations, built on existing or new (augmented) infrastructure, following a set of common protocols, guidelines and standards issued by the Government of India. In this regard, the Cloud Strategic Direction Paper and Implementation roadmap, which was published in June 2013, can be accessed using the below mentioned link:

The first National Cloud implemented by NIC was launched in February’ 2014 where a large number of government departments are already using cloud services, which may be accessed using the below mentioned link: